Month: March 2018

Seminar @ New Era University 2/24/2018

Having a speaking engagement in New Era University is perhaps one of the unique experiences in my life as a resource speaker. It allowed me to experience a slice of the “Iglesia Culture” and I am really surprised to see that the men and the women are seated on different sides of the room!

 I started the talk by telling the students how I started in the industry and how I discovered Microsoft’s “Power” tools. Basically how I came to be. After that, we run through the BI Concepts and started to discuss in detail the different uses of the visuals. I demonstrated each visual and how they were used in Analog Devices General Trias. I also demonstrated how to import custom visuals along with the import of themes.

We also run through a few data visualization no-nos. mainly the impact of each visual’s property (volume, area, intensity of color etc) and how it may mislead people looking at the graphs.

Seminar @ UE Caloocan 2/15/2018

I was invited by Coding Girls Manila to talk at my alma mater. Even if I am not from the hosting department (the hosting department is College of Computer Systems Studies, while I am from the College of Engineering), the delivery of the talk seems okay. The talk is more of a run through the different visualization capabilities of Power BI which includes the Custom Visuals and the new Theming capability.

I was surprised to see that one of the speakers is from the company behind HERE Maps. he claimed that Bing Maps is Based on HERE maps. He also voiced out slowness on the map visualization whenever there are too many data points. I simply advised him to use geolocation on his ETL step so that he can aggregate the data based on the city, just a quick and dirty work around.

I was nice to see my former school and my former professors again.

Seminar @ PUP Taguig 2/10/2018

This activity was scheduled years ago, and I am very surprised that the organizers we able to materialize their event registrants. almost every time I organize a Programmers, Developers Meetup, the turn out is almost always 25%-35% so whenever I am creating eventbrite event page, I always pump up the tickets to 250-300. But in this events case, the turn out is somewhere ~86% It seems that the combination of topics is pretty much in line with the participants interests.

The talk was smooth. Most of the people in front were engaged and someone already invited me to do a talk at their venue. Hopefully he soon reach out to me. The difference between this Business Intelligence talk is more on the application of Business Intelligence on Analog Devices General Trias warehouse.

We also get to me Sir Robert “Bob” Reyes, a Mozilla Evangelist.

Here is the official photographer’s coverage of the event